Charlton Krentz is owner and Managing Director of Krentz & Griffin Group, a family business established in 1999 and today a multi-disciplinary accountancy and tax advisory firm with offices in the Isle of Man, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom. The practice acts for private clients, owner-managed businesses, and corporate structures across a range of jurisdictions, with much of its work sitting at the point where legal systems meet – a reflection of the firm’s own history.
Alongside the practice, Charlton holds a number of directorships and senior appointments across the private sector, spanning financial, gaming, property, and trading businesses. These roles range from board positions to hands-on financial oversight, and he takes a particular interest in governance, the discipline of doing things properly.
Meanwhile, elsewhere…
The pigeon
A fortress never taken, Germans and Russians buried side by side, and a bird in the canal.
Born and raised in Luxembourg, Charlton moved to the Isle of Man in 2004, where he built his early career in finance with several of the Island’s leading life assurance and banking institutions before taking the reins of the family firm and reshaping it into the practice it is today.
Holding a BA (Hons) in Business Management and an LLM in Commercial Law, he is a licensed accountant and Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians, and a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Charlton was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers in 2021 and was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London in 2022, at the time the youngest recipient of that distinction, having been quickly superseded the following week.
An active Freemason, Charlton has held numerous provincial ranks on the Isle of Man, latterly that of Provincial Grand Secretary, and belongs to a number of lodges, chapters and orders. He is also a member of lodges in London, where he has held senior office.
He is founder and Chairman of the Manx Benevolent Fund, an Isle of Man registered charity with the objective of providing relief to those facing financial hardship.
Charlton Krentz 